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The inaugural conference, on the theme “Sermon: Text and Performance,” was held October 19-22 in Huntington, WV. Photos from the event can be viewed online, and some of the abstracts and papers are available via the links below.

The full program included presentations from some 25 scholars, mostly from the eastern United States, as well as roundtable discussions with Marshall faculty and students and local clergy.

There were two special events open to both conference attendees and the general public: a talk by Marc Saperstein entitled "Jewish Pulpit Responses to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder, 1933-1945” and a performance by George Drance entitled *mark: The Gospel of Mark written in the First Century. These events were made possible in part by the West Virginia Humanities Council, the Edwards Visiting Professor in the Arts Program in Marshall’s College of Arts and Media, and Marshall’s College of Liberal Arts.